Aid to the freedmen, [1865] : [broadside].

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Aid to the freedmen, [1865] : [broadside].

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Account volume, 1868, with attached broadside, [1865], soliciting contributions and directing monies to treasurer Joseph B. Collins of New York City, and reporting conditions on Edisto Island, S.C. Broadside includes request for support, "The undersigned, a Committee appointed at a Public Meeting held at the Cooper Institute... appeal to their fellow-citizens for a prompt and hearty response to the demand for aid, that comes to us from the thousands of Freedmen gathered by Sherman's Army and others arriving constantly within the Union lines. There are now on Edisto Island alone, several thousand -men, women and children - in a state of entire destitution, in whose behalf General Saxton has made most pressing appeals to the benevolence of the country"; signed in print by Charles H. Marshall, W.C. Bryant, Peter Cooper, Eleazer Parmly, W.K. Strong, Francis Geo[rge] Shaw, Robert Lenox Kennedy, John Jay, Joseph B. Collins, Edward F. Davison, and George Cabot Ward. Apparently only one page was used in this small account book, although several sheets have been removed from end of volume; cover title, "Aid for Freedmen"

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National Freedman's Relief Association

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Andersonville Prison, represented in the collection through its hospital records and registers, was located in southwest Georgia and operated for 15 months between 1864 and 1865. The site was used by the Confederate Army as a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Union soldiers. At the time of its closure, almost 13,000 Union soldiers had died at Andersonville. The records were collected by E. P. Hopkins, a captured soldier from Ohio who worked as a steward in the prison hospital. ...